Love & Rage

Dr. Croly:
In the year 1903, there was a big house on a wild island, where two ladies lived, alone and together. I was a doctor on the island and often visited the house. I still do, but I have no medicine for their secret wounds.

Agnes MacDonnell:
Who are you anyway?

James Lynchehaun:
Well, I know who I am. But I don't know who you are.

Agnes MacDonnell:
I am the owner of this estate. You need my permission to shoot on these lands.

James Lynchehaun:
And I'm the owner of meself.

Agnes MacDonnell:
I'm frightfully disreputable. Divorced, you know. Even the bogey man won't touch me.

James Lynchehaun:
Any business I have with the yellow woman, I have with you. I know that, even if she doesn't. She's treating you like some kind of bog man.

Sweeney:
Who is a bog man?

James Lynchehaun:
Well, isn't that how she treats us all? Like bog men?

Julia:
You're not afraid, James Lynchehaun. You glory in fear. You glory in cruelty.

James Lynchehaun:
When I was a small boy, I think the dark was afraid of me.

Agnes MacDonnell:
[in the stables] My husband has his own interests in love. You could say I'm in love with horses, he's in love with centaurs.

James Lynchehaun:
Centaurs? Half horse and half man.

Agnes MacDonnell:
It's the man part which makes the centaur interesting. If you understand what I mean.

voice over:
[text of a newspaper article] The Supreme Court of the United States accepts Mr Lynchehaun was lawfully sentenced to life imprisonment in Ireland. He escaped and unlawfully entered the United States. The court accepts that Mr Lynchehaun was a member of the revolutionary organisation The Irish Republican Brotherhood and that he led some two hundred persons attacking Mrs MacDonnell's proberty. By any standard this was a political act. The motion to have him extradicted back to British jurisdiction is therefore refused.

Agnes MacDonnell:
Go back to hell!

James Lynchehaun:
I can't go back. I'm in it!